The world has produced a lot of sci-fi movies and books at this point, and many of them have been based on the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) will reach unbelievable progress in its development, up to the point where humans simply cannot control it. Naturally, this outcome isn’t exactly the best for humanity because intelligent machines could even threaten our existence, so many people warn about the potential negative impacts of intelligent machines on us in the future.

It’s been two weeks since we were in Toronto with the Deep Learning Summit & AI for Government Summit, and we already wish we were back. We couldn’t help but take another look through the social media highlights from the event and thought we’d share some of our favourites. A big thank you to our Twitter ambassadors, @Synced_Global @anitasanchop @marijamijalki @ekkehardernst @whatsyourtech, who did such a great job of capturing presentation highlights and sharing their thoughts over the two days.

This week at the Deep Learning Summit in Toronto, RE•WORK brought together leading experts working in AI and Deep Learning for the second Canadian edition of the RE•WORK Global DL Summit Series. Building on the 2017 Montreal event, attendees from over 20 countries came together to learn from industry experts in speech & pattern recognition, neural networks, image analysis and NLP, and explored how deep learning will impact all industries through interactive workshops, interviews, presentations, networking and more.

Following the success of RE•WORK’s inaugural summit in Canada last year, the event will be returning with the Deep Learning Summit in Toronto on the 25-26 October. Pioneer of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, Professor, University of Toronto will be joined by experts from Deep Genomics, UCLA, Snap Research and many more. Last year’s summit brought together the founding fathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun & Geoffrey Hinton, and due to popular demand, the summit has expanded to include a secondary track; the AI for Government Summit.